A/N: Wow, it has been so long since I updated this story and I am SO sorry guys. Please don't hate me. But I was super busy with school and I wrote two different things in between this update and the last one. I am done with school for the summer but I am looking for a job but I probably am not going to be super busy either way. So what I'm saying is that hopefully like last summer I will be able to update at least once every two weeks maybe more often if I can come up with enough ideas. (No promises but that is the goal for this summer guys!) I really want to sort of kind of redo OR add on to the Beach Trip chapters too, summer puts me into that mode. I feel like I kind of screwed up the last few chapters for it though so I may redo it and leave the old ones and let you guys decide what really happened; they were always fun to write. Plus when Teen Wolf is actually on it motivates me to write as well. Anyway I hope you like the update and thank you for being patient with me and my lack of updates. Don't worry I didn't forget about this story.
"So what do you want to do today babe?" Stiles asked his pregnant wife as they lay in bed together, cuddling and watching the Saturday morning news.
"Can we please put the nursery together this weekend? I've been wanting to get it done for a while." Lydia begged, just like she had been for the past few weeks. It's not that he didn't want to it was that he had been busy at work for a few weeks and putting together furniture and shopping was never one of the top things on his list.
"You act like we haven't done anything in there yet." He teased.
"Stiles, all we did so far was paint it pink." She deadpanned, rolling over to face him as she thought about the lovely shade of pink they had picked out at the hardware store the day they that the found out their first child was going to be a little girl.
"Well at least that part is already done." He smiled at her slight frustration, knowing that the nesting stage of her first pregnancy was settling in. She was already at twenty two weeks and her bump was small like her but big enough to no longer fit into most of her wardrobe.
"True, but we still have to get all of the furniture and set it up. It will just make me more relaxed knowing that it's done." She said reaching up and lazily playing with his thick brown sleep tousled locks that were especially crazy on this particular morning.
"Alright we can go do that today if you'd like."
"Yes that sounds perfect. I'm going to go get ready so we can get started." She said excitedly, she always became happy when she was thinking about their baby and he was so glad.
"Okay don't take too long." He said kissing her on the forehead before he watched her waddle her was out of bed and into the master bathroom.
"Do you think we should get a regular bassinet and one of these snuggle nest things or do you think we should just go with the co-sleeper bassinet?" Lydia asked as she carefully weighed the different options out loud.
"Snuggle nest?" He questioned, wrinkling his nose slightly as he pushed the cart up the aisle to where she was standing. "What are you talking about? I thought we were buying a crib."
"We are. But that will be in her room, we have to get her a bassinet for the first few months." She informed him.
"Okay but why?" It was cute yet frustrating that he had utterly no idea what half of this baby stuff meant.
"We need some type of co-sleeper because I'll have to breastfeed her in the middle of the night and because I want her to be as close as possible to us at all times." She explained, cradling her baby bump, she looked ravishing in the fuchsia maxi dress and jean jacket she was wearing. It was one of the few she was able to find for someone with such a small frame but she was stunning, she looked so relaxed and blissful in it and he loved that.
"How does that work exactly?" He was still confused; he didn't really understand all of this baby stuff.
"The regular bassinet would just be by itself and the co-sleeper bassinet would just be right next to the bed, like it is in the picture." She said pointing to a picture of the bassinet on the back of one of the boxes. "And the snuggle nest goes in the middle of the bed, its good for when she's really little. Or if we spend the night at your dad's we can take that with us because she can nap in it too, well until she gets too big." Lydia explained and he did his best to follow along but he still didn't understand it all. But it was still cute to see her explaining everything because of all of the research she had been doing.
"What do you think would work best?"
"I don't know Stiles, that's why I asked you." She groaned and he chuckled in amusement. "It's not funny." She added.
"Okay well that snuggle nest or whatever sounds pretty cool, it's probably a good idea since we are going to snuggle her to death most likely."
"Alright, that's good because I was going to get her one anyway." She said grabbing one of the boxes that contained a cream colored pattern and put it into the cart. "Now what are we going to do about the bassinet? Which should we get?"
"That's up to you babe, you're the one who has to feed her at night."
"I guess we'll go with the co-sleeper one, I think I'll want her as close to me as I can get. Can you put it in the cart?" She said pointing to the other cream colored item she wanted and he did as he was asked quite happily.
"Uh Lydia why is everything brown though, aren't we having a girl?" He asked, he was pretty sure the doctor has said girl at their last appointment.
"We have to get gender neutral furniture so that if we ever have a boy he can use all of the stuff too." She explained and then he realized it really was a good idea to do it that way.
"Oh, that is smart."
"I know. Now let's go find a car seat and stroller to put on the registry for the baby shower and then we have to pick out and order the furniture for the nursery." She said as she walked to the end of the aisle, they were buying some of the things that the baby would need, but also putting things on their baby shower registry. Lydia tried to figure out where everything was located but she became distracted when she came across the section that house diaper bags. "Okay screw gender neutrality here, we're so getting a pink diaper bag, they're so cute." She said digging through one to see how big the pockets were inside.
"No this is the exact thing we need gender neutrality for. I am so not carrying around a pink purse." He said as he walked around the cart he was pushing and overlooked the way to pink bag she was holding.
"You're no fun, you know that right?" She pouted putting it back on the shelf as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder with a sigh of relief. "What about this one?" She grabbed a light brown bag with pink lining inside. "It has to have a little pink in it."
"I guess I can work with that." He said kissing her temple softly and moving one of his hands to graze her growing belly. "Is she kicking today?" He asked this all the time and even when she was he never got there in time to feel it, he hated it he wanted to feel her kick so badly.
"Mhm this morning in the shower I could feel her moving around." She began "Don't worry you'll feel it one day, I promise." She kissed his cheek and wiggled out of his embrace in order to get on with the shopping.
"I hope your right, I feel like she's doing it on purpose." He grumbled, every single time he went to feel the baby kick, she stopped as if on cue.
"She is definitely not doing it on purpose." She said making her way to where the strollers were, him going back to the cart and pushing it. "She only ever does it at night when I'm trying to sleep, trust me it's not that great."
"Well next time you feel it tell me, even if it's two in the morning."
"Okay baby, I'll let you know." She said, knowing how important it was that he felt the baby kicking.
After getting a few baby things themselves, ordering the matching nursery furniture, and adding a few more items to the registry Stiles and Lydia decided to pick out a few outfits for their daughter as well. As cute as it was to see him so excited to be picking out outfits he still had no idea how to pick anything that matched. Luckily with Lydia's help he was able to put together a few outfits for the baby.
Never would have Lydia imagined she'd be shopping for baby items with Stiles Stilinski, but what she really never imagined was that she would like it so damn much. While she felt lethargic and gross being pregnant, she was also somehow extremely thrilled and excited about being pregnant, it was very weird. But she was happy that she was content with more simple things now. She loved how enthusiastic Stiles was when it came to their baby girl. It was sort of adorable how he tried to suggest what type of furniture to get and other baby items to register for but majority of the time she had to shoot him down what he picked out but he still remained excited. Luckily he was very good at taking suggestions and when she helped him step by step he could usually put something together.
She loved how simple and happy they were. How other people and couples looked at them so fondly. Lydia was never big into PDA but with Stiles she lost all qualms with it, and it was impossible to control. It was always respectful and cute though, a lot of hugging, hand holding, hair playing, soft caresses, and quick kisses, nothing too intense just sweet. And the PDA they displayed now included belly touching because Stiles couldn't help himself and she loved it too much too push him away. So here they were, waiting in the check-out line, box full of baby clothes and boxes, Stiles' front flush against her back with one of his arms wrapped around her chest and the other fondly caressing her protruding belly and her leaning into his embrace like it was the happiest moment of her life, just standing in the long Baby's R Us line.
They shopped for the rest of the day, Lydia dragging him to a few clothes stores so she could pick up a few maternity outfits, they also browsed in the bookstore for about an hour all before going to get dinner at Panera bread just enjoying each other's company. Eventually the headed home but not before stopping by the grocery store to get some ice cream and other junk food for Lydia's constant cravings. This was the best way she could imagine to spend a Saturday.
"Stiles I think you put that in the wrong spot." Lydia said as Stiles attempting to put together the bassinet they had bought for the baby as she was observing from the middle of their large bed.
"I think I got this, I don't need instructions, remember?" He joked as he tried to put the remaining pieces of the bassinet together.
"Yeah that's not exactly what I meant. And I am starting to regret that I ever said that, I would have been more careful if I ever thought we were going to be building this much furniture together." She quipped spooning a bite of ice cream out of the carton.
"Well do you regret still having your left leg?" He turned raising an eyebrow in her direction. "That's what I thought." He replied with a smug smile when she failed to respond.
"There, finished." He announced a few minutes later and the bassinet actually looked like the picture on the box.
"It looks good baby, thank you for putting it together." She smiled and suddenly it grew into a surprised smile. "Oh Stiles come here, she's kicking." He quickly came over and sat on the bed next to her, as she rolled up the night gown she had changed into so he col place his hands on her belly with no barriers.
"What? Are you sure? I don't feel anything." He informed her and he was right, the kicks from inside her belly had stopped.
"Oh, I think she stopped again." She pouted; she wanted him to get to feel too.
"Lydia I think she hates me. She's not even born yet and she already hates me so much that she won't even kick when I'm around. Just imagine what it's going to be like when she's here she probably will just scream all day when I hold her. This is just great." He rambled causing Lydia to give him a sad smile.
"Try to talk to her, I read that sometimes that can get the baby to move around and you're very good at talking." She told him as he straddled her legs carefully and lowered his head closer to Lydia's belly.
"Alright. Hey Cassidy, this is your Daddy, Stiles, although you'll just call me Daddy so forget that part. I really hope you don't hate me already because I love you so much. Me and your Mommy are going to take such good care of you. I really hope you're not a banshee though because that could get loud in the middle of the night." Lydia had to just roll her eyes and giggle at that comment. "But even if you are I'll still love you. So could you please just kick for me? I want to make sure you're okay and happy."
"Put your hand right here." Lydia squeaked grabbing his hand and placing it on her belly watching Stiles' face light up as he felt the little kicks and movement.
"Oh my god she's kicking! She listened to me! This is so exciting!" He beamed. "Thank you for listening to me, you're already such a good listener. I love you so much." He said before kissing Lydia's belly all over so overjoyed to feel his daughter moving around.
"Isn't it cool?" Lydia smiled finally being able to share the feeling with her husband.
"Mmm, so cool. Coolest thing ever." He said climbing up to the top of the bed, sitting up and using his hands to caress Lydia's face to give her a kiss on the lips filled with utter love and contentment.
"I'm so glad you finally got to feel it." She grinned before kissing his perfect lips again.
"Mmm, god I love you." He breathed quickly before going in for another passion filled kiss.
A/N: So forgive me if this wasn't my best but I'm getting used to writing this again so excuse me if this chapter is weird. Please tell me what you think! :/
